William Ahern <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 02:01:10PM +0200, Otto Moerbeek wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 10:51:54AM +0000, Roderick wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > Acording to the man page: "timegm() is a deprecated interface that
> > > converts [...]"
> > > 
> > > O.K., deprecated. And what is the alternative?
> > > 
> > > Thanks for any hint
> > > Rodrigo
> > > 
> > 
> > The paragraph above it (discussing timelocal()) suggests it's
> > mktime().
> 
> There is no alternative to timegm that is thread-safe. timegm is widely
> supported, including BSDs, glibc, musl; it shouldn't be deprecated, IMNSHO.
> Solaris even recently reintroduced timegm (with 11.4) after having removed
> it years ago.

It is marked deprecated.

That doesn't mean it is going away.

It's just a pseudo-legal term by a bunch of muppets.

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